Areas of Research/Interest: philosophy of science, concepts, philosophical applications of cognitive science

Selected Works:

Recent representative publications:

"The Causal and Unification Accounts of Explanation Unified Causally", Noûs 38, 154-179, 2004.

Bigger than Chaos: Understanding Complexity through Probability, Harvard University Press, 2003.

"The Role of the Priority Rule in Science", Journal of Philosophy 100, 55-79, 2003.

"The Essentialist Aspect of Naive Theories", Cognition 74, 149-175, 2000.

Online papers

Many papers are posted online at Professor Strevens's web site.

Courses

Undergraduate

Honors Seminar, Fall 2004

Graduate

Advanced Seminar on Percepts and Concepts (Fall 2005, Professors Block and Strevens)
High Level Explanation, Fall 2004